Barrel-head fastener



I! mept. E2, 1933. s. H. OSGOOD BARREL HEAD FASTENER Filed Jan. 18, 1952 Fig: 3s

Patented Sept. 12, 1933 I I l I v umreo sures. PATENT orncr:

1,926,302 BARREL-HEAD FASTENEB George H. Osgood, Tacoma Wash, Application Janna-r18, 1932. Serial No. 587,21: 1 Claim. (01. 217-89) This invention relates to means for fastening being about as wide as the thickness oi the the head of a barrel in place thereon and has barrel stock. special reference to barrels and heads made of The length of the cylindrical partis slightly P y less than the circumference or the barrel 1 or 5 The objects oi my invention are to provide a head 2. Both ends of the cylindrical part 5 are dd fastening means which requires no nails and provided'witlrtongues 8 adapted to overlap when which, therefore, may be removed without damthe hoop is tightened around the barrel. These age either to the barrel, the head, or the iastcning two overlapping tongues 8 may be clamped to hoop, and which therefore permits the said parts gether by any of the accepted seals, 9 in common to be used as often as required; whichis of great use at the present time. The tongues 8 are pref- "65 strength, which is cheap, and which is easy to erably of equal width and length (Fig. 5) but, apply or remove with simple tools. if desired, one may be broader than the other and I attain these and other objects by the devices provided with a slot 10 through which the other and arrangements illustrated in the accompanytongue may be passed (Fig. 6), in which case the ing drawing, in whieh-- ends may be clamped or soldered together to fas- 7% Fig. l is an elevation of the end of a barrel, ten thehoop in place.

showing the head fastened thereto; Fig. 2' is a The barrel is headed by first placing the head plan view thereof, on a smaller scale; Fig. 3 is 2 into and over the end of the barrel and then an enlarged section or the joint between the barpassing the hoop over the head and pressing rel and its head, taken on the lirie 3-3 in Fig. it down until the flange 6 enters the groove 4-. in '35 2; Fig. 4. is a similar section taken on the line the barrel, at whichtime the flange '7 will be 4.--*i in Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is an elevation of the two tight on top oi the head 2. The clamp or seal ends or the fastening hoop, disconnected; and 9 is then slipped over the lapped tongues t and Fig. 6 is a similar view of a variation thereof. the tongues are drawn tight enough to prevent 3 Similar numerals of reference refer to similar the flange 6 from being removed from the groove w parts throughout the several views. 4, and the seal 9 is closed.

My invention applies primarily to plywood bar- It is evident then that the head 2 is securely rels but may be used with other types of 0011- held on the end of the barrel. It cannot be struction. its shown in the drawing, the barrel pulled off therefrom by an axial pull, tests hav- 1 and the head 2 are or such plywood construcing shown that the barrel head will break before 5 tion, the head 2 being usually of slightly thicker the hoop will loosen from the barrel. It cannot stool: than the body of the barrel 1. The head he slid laterally both because of the groove 3 2 is of a diameter substantially equal to, but which forms a shoulder around the head and not greater than, the outside diameter of the makes a lap-joint with the barrel, and because barrel 1 and is provided with a circumferential the hoop forms a stifi flange entirely surrounding W grooved extending entirely around its inner edge its edge. In practice, the strength or certain whereby it fits into the end of the barrel (Figs. ho p h n found Such that it takes a siresfi 3 and 4) forming a lap-joint therewith. of 850 pounds per lineal inch to straighten out The barrel 1 is provided with a circumferential the flange "I and 1280 pounds per lineal inch to groove in its outer surface, said groove 4; being straighten out the flange.

parallel with the end or the barrel and being It i tobe understood thatthis p i n t positioned about one inch therefrom. This int ded to act a h ry barrel en by groove 4. may, in practice be about one sixteenth reenforcing h rr against r in r s but of an inch deep and wide. is simply a means of holding the head 2 in place The fastening means. comprises an open hoop thereon. It is also to be understood that several termed oil a cylindrical portion 5, having a small changes may be m i the a l f my nflange or gripping lug it turned inward therefrom vention, wi departing f m h ess nce along its entire lower edge and adapted to enter her f as Ou line in h pp claim, h

5 the groove 4 in the outer suriace of the barrel 1 asz-the head 2 may lie altogether on top oi 105 and to grip the upper edge thereof; and a holdt end of the ba rel, o in s m cases. it mgr ing flange I turned inward therefrom along its even lie within the end or the barrel and'with entire upper edge and adapted to lie snugly on its outer face flush with said end, in which case top of the outer edge surface of the head 2, to hold the flange 7 mu t b made wide enough to p p- 55 the head in place on the barrel, said flange erly engage the outer surface of the head.

I and desire to of the barrel; a pair of overlapping tongues exweaeoa tending from the ends oi said hoop; a separate removable seal for securing said tongues togather; a' groove formed around the barrel adjacent to and parallel with its end and adapted to receive the lower gripping flange or saidho'op, whereby said hoop is held from axial movement on the barrel.

GEORGE H. OSGOOD. 

